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...days running, I couldn't get my WiFi hookup. The French are hopeless with anything computer-related. Europe is soooo analog. When you think about it, all the top technological innovations have come from either America or Asia. I mean, the French haven't invented anything useful since the late 19th century: movies. Unless you count Robert Bresson's invention, 50 years later, of reeeeeally slooooow movies...
While I advocate self-reliance, I’m also a realist. So, if a random hook-up provides a suitable distraction, go for it. Just watch out for the confusion that might follow. Post-hookup is when guys tend to get vague. Do they want to hook up again? Unclear. Do they want to court you? Unclear. Are they straight? Unclear...
...beer goggles—which simply enhance our Harvard goggles—or any other magically corrective eyewear. We get drunk, sadly, because we just don’t have it in us to engage in normal sexual behavior, and many of us prefer a stress-free drunken hookup to more meaningful relationships...
...show featuring his cooking exploits. Campus Cuisine's authenticity--Lieberman was a real college student showing his contemporaries how to do things like make smoothies out of dining-hall fruit--helped the show gain a cult following. Students would stop Lieberman after classes to ask for a "hookup" recipe. Tapes of the show were passed around, spreading his fame beyond the New Haven campus and eventually to the Food Network...
...single. I had loose connections with some of the guys on my floor and one strong friendship. I was hopeful, though I knew that nothing is more difficult than infiltrating a group of friends. There are house rules, longstanding jokes first cracked at 4 a.m. in a Canaday hallway, hookup histories. After a couple of weeks, I felt like Jack Bauer in 24, learning to blend in and snoop around for clues—that girl, who stopped in last night, she was his first time two years ago, but things didn’t end well. I make...